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Describe Aristotle’s teaching about the difference between the final cause and other sorts of cause
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Describe Aristotle's teaching about the difference between the final cause and other sorts of cause. Aristotle lived between 384 and 322bc, he was the most successful philosophy student of his master, Plato. Although Aristotle was taught by Plato and loved Plato dearly he dismissed a lot of his ideas, one of the main ideas he disagreed with was his epistemology, his theory of knowledge. Plato believed in the 'world of the forms' which was more real than the world around us whereas Aristotle believed that our world was real and that knowledge could be gained by studying what was around us. Aristotle claimed that all things existed in relation to other things and we only have knowledge of things in relation to ourselves and other things around us, we only understand what a chair is because we understand the wood and the chairs shape and our legs and the difference between sitting...
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